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previous events.

Past Events:

December 2006

ChileBSDCon 2006, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile9 December, 2006The first BSD related conference in Chile. The objective is
to join the developers, users, and BSD sysadmins in Chile to share and
interchange ideas, experiences, and knowledge. In addition, it aims to
provide a chance to socialize and construct future links to expand the
knowledge of the BSD systems. The conference is for anyone developing,
administrating, and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
DragonFlyBSD, and Darwin as well as MacOS X and Solaris.

LISA '06, Washington, D.C., USA3 - 8 December, 2006The annual LISA conference is the meeting place of choice
for system, network, database, storage, security, and all other
computer-related administrators. Administrators of all specialties
and levels of expertise meet at LISA to exchange ideas, sharpen old
skills, learn new techniques, debate current issues, and meet
colleagues and friends. A BSD booth will be available in the
exhibit hall.

November 2006

MeetBSD 2006, Centrum Konferencyjno-Kongresowe PWSBiA, Warsaw, Poland25 - 26 November, 2006The third annual MeetBSD conference will be held in
Poland to bring together BSD experts from around Europe.
Several FreeBSD developers will be presenting on FreeBSD
topics.

October 2006

NYCBSDCon 2006, Davis Auditorium, Columbia University, New York City, USA28 - 29 October, 2006Continuing on the success of last year, the New York City
BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the
East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain
knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun.
This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users
Group (NYC*BUG).

September 2006

CIMM 2006, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia20 - 22 September, 2006Every two (sometimes three) years the leading Colombian
Mechanical Engineering Universities organize a congress. This
year the congress will become an international event and will
feature an article about free Mechanical Engineering applications
recently ported to FreeBSD. Note: the scheduled FreeBSD talk has
been canceled but the related paper is available here.

come2linux - Linuxtage in Essen, UniversitÅ¡t Duisburg-Essen, Glas-Pavilion, Essen, Germany9 - 10 September, 2006Linuxtage in Essen is a two day event on Linux and
Free Software in general. There will be workshops, talks, a
theme park and room for various projects to present themselves.
FreeBSD will be present with a booth as well as several talks.

June 2006

FrOSCon 2006, Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin, Germany24 - 25 June, 2006FrOSCon is a two day conference on Free Software
and Open Source, taking place in Sankt Augustin near the cities
of Bonn and Cologne. The conference revolves around a rich schedule
of talks, highlighting current topics in Free Software and Open Source,
including an introductory talk about FreeBSD.

May 2006

2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA30 May - 3 June, 2006The 2006 USENIX ATC will have FREENIX and general
refereed paper sessions. This is THE big conference of the year
for BSD enthusiasts in the U.S.

SANE 2006, Aula Congresscentre, Delft, The Netherlands15 - 19 May, 2006The SANE conference program is filled with the latest
developments in system administration, network engineering,
security and open source software. Several prominent FreeBSD
team members will be speaking and FreeBSD related papers will be
presented.

BSDCan 2006, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada12 - 13 May, 2006BSDCan is a developers conference with a strong focus
on emerging technologies, research projects, and works in
progress. It also features Userland infrastructure projects and
invites contributions from both free software developers and those
from commercial vendors.

LinuxTag 2006, Rhein-Main-Hallen, Wiesbaden, Germany3 - 6 May, 2006LinuxTag is Europe's largest event about Free Software,
Linux and Open Source. This year there will be the traditional
FreeBSD-Booth, some BSD-Talks and maybe BSD-Tutorials. For more
information, please see http://www.AllBSD.de/events/linuxtag/.

March 2006

UKUUG LISA/Spring Conference 2006, University of Durham, Durham, UK22 - 23 March, 2006UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration
(LISA) conference will take place in the historic city of Durham on
Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd March 2006. This conference is a
must-attend event for system and network administrators. As well as
the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment
for members to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of
subjects. This year, a series of talks on the BSD family of operating
systems is also planned to run alongside the main systems
administration stream.

CeBIT 2006, MessegelÅ¡nde, Hannover, Germany9 - 15 March, 2006CeBIT is a large trade fair in Germany. FreeBSD will be
present with a booth inside the LinuxPark (hall 5, booth E 56) from
March 12-15. For more information, please see http://www.AllBSD.de/events/cebit/.

February 2006

Fosdem 2006, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium25 - 26 February, 2006A 2 day event to promote the widespread use of Free
and Open Source software. Several BSD developers, including
FreeBSD developers, will be present and give a series of
talks.

FreeBSD Kernel Code Reading Evening Course, Berkeley, California, USA22 February - 13 June, 2006The ``FreeBSD Kernel Internals: An Intensive Code
Walkthrough'' course will be taught during the Spring of 2006. The
class will be held at the historic Hillside Club at 2286 Cedar
Street, Berkeley, CA 94709 just three blocks north of the Berkeley
campus once per week from 6:30PM to 9:45PM starting Wednesday February
22nd and finishing Tuesday June 13th. You can get more
information or sign up for the class at http://www.mckusick.com/courses/adveveclass.html.